Photo: Circa 2000 - something

What’s our love story?

According to Devon: “We met in college; the rest is history.” That’s Devon for you, he’s direct and succinct (one of his best qualities). Well, there you have it. That’s where it begins and ends. Thanks for joining our Ted Talk.

All jokes aside, we've known each other for a very long time.

It all started Freshman Year, Fall 2002 at the University of Arizona (Bear Down!) in African American Literature. The instructor at the time, Dr. Howard, was calling out names for attendance or something of that nature, and he called, “Patterson”. We both raised our hands.

The shock that I had to meet another person with my last name because I never met anyone with that last name. My first thought was, “Are we related?” (No, we aren’t). We looked at each other, and kind of laughed.

Then randomly, I happened to be checking my mail and Devon was randomly there. I learned he was there to meet with his friends. Not only that, but they also lived next door to me. And that is when we started to hang out as friends. Nothing romantic because I did friend zone him for a good year until I realized that he liked me.

We did end up dating until after we graduated, but sometimes things come to an end. However, we did stay friends, and we did check in with one another over the years to see how each other were doing.

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